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I am trying to edit photos in Photos app, and add the edited photos to a movie in iMovie. The edited photo shows in the thumbnail when clicking "Photos" in the left menu, but in the preview and in the movie it is showing the original. What gives? Why can't I add the edited version?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.3
Try the workaround that I suggested in my earlier post.
-- Rich
Yeah I mean that work around works but adding 3 steps, a dozen mouse clicks, and an extra image file for every one is just ridiculous. This is something that should just work.
Others have reported this problem. Not seen a solution yet.
Workaround is to do a File/Export Photo from the Photos app and export the edited photo to your desktop. From there drag it into the timeline of an iMovie project.
— Rich
I am having the same issue. I'm also having issues with titles not centering and being off the screen. Don't know if the two would be or are related - just sharing. Very frustrating to do the edits and they be for nothing when you add to imovie.
Agreed. It should work. Several other posters have had the same issue. For some reason, there have been lots of glitchy things with Montery 12.3. Since the Photos app is built into the operating system, that might account for it not interfacing correctly with iMovie. Or maybe it's the iMovie update that is not referencing the Photos app properly. If so, I suspect that a future Monterey or iMovie update update would cure that. Meanwhile, we are stuck with workarounds.
You might just be able to drag the edited photo from the Photos app library directly into an iMovie timeline. and have it carry over the edits. Or drag to the desktop and then to the timeline. Both methods work with Mojave and iMovie 10.1.12 that I am running. Not perfect, but a lot fewer clicks.
-- Rich
I have the same problem. Thank you for putting it into words; I was having trouble describing what was going on. For me dragging straight into iMovie from Photos doesn't work, but exporting seems to. Hope there is a fix soon!
Photos edited in Photos app show as original when added to iMovie
